Katsu Japanese Restaurant

Probably one of the better AYCE places in the Danforth area and for a reasonable price. Been here a couple times and the service was quick and friendly on both occasions. The quality of their seafood is quite good as well. If you’re ordering from the AYCE menu they have a smaller and more standard selection of sushi, sashimi and hand rolls. They do have a much larger selection of rolls. My fav is anything with avocado and Unagi (eel). Their hot and sour soup is quite good as is the ramen broth. They make the broth fresh every day and it was a really nice flavour to it. Dinner AYCE prices range around $ 20 – 25 depending on if it’s a weekday or weekend.

The Edamame is one of my fave, simple dishes. This one was very off coloured and did not taste even close to fresh. As for the sushi, the rice was mushy. They also gave us a wrong order, but it had pieces of sashimi that I did order, so I thought that was just a small mistake and so we ate it. Then comes along our real order… At that point we were already full.
But the lady, who appeared to be the manager was very nice! She greeted everyone kindly and offered a holiday house special sushi dish to every table and desserts (not sure if its part of the AYCE because its not on the menu). However, it was difficult to get the staff’s attention. We asked for water and tea three times. We didn’t get it until we had been on our fourth dish.

This place has been a staple on the Danforth for many many years. I came here with 3 friends for dinner. The décor and atmosphere of the place is nice and pleasing.
The AYCE menus offer a decent selection of expected hot items such as beef & salmon teriyaki, a small selection of udon, tempura, miso soup, etc. While the sushi choices were the standard sashimi (salmon, white tuna, yellowtail, etc) and rolls (dragon, rainbow, unagi, etc).
There is a two-​hour dine-​in time limit but that isn’t a surprise to any AYCE’er.
Everything tasted satisfying but nothing really stood out compared to some of the other AYCE places.
We all felt satisfied after the meal with nary a feeling of hunger remaining.
We went on a weekday where I felt the price was more competitive and got great service.

Yesterday, I went there for the first time. Before I started writing these reviews, I was very surprised how bad services other people had. On the contrary, I had quite a good experience there. I ordered Shioramen. Noodle was excellent, chashu (pork) were excellent, eggs and soup were tasty. My friend ordered Katsudon and I had a little bit. We thought the rice was just right, and Katsu (Fried pork) was tasty. My friend said onions on the top were very good. I did not order Sushi, though. Tables and seats are comfortable with good spaces. Try Katsudon or Shioramen!

Used to be my fav all you can eat sushi place. Not any more. Servers was friendly enough and service was with okay speed but quality of food wasnt good. Wasn’t busy lunch dinner time but rice in sushi was literally warm. all sushi was pretty much the same on taste. Difficult to eat, some of them not properly rolled. The food on the nice full of picture menu is very different visually from the food on your table. Dinner wasn’t worth it the money. I’m trying to add two pictures, one of the role from menu and other what I get.

Katsu Sushi is the place to go for Sushi in Greek Town. It’s clean, comfortable, the staff are friendly, the food is fresh, as a matter of fact really damn good and always arrives at the table in a timely manner. My wife and I met here for the first time on our first date, and we spent three and a half comfortable hours chatting in a booth. It’s too bad they have only 4 booths in the diningroom. The rest of the seating in the diningroom is typical chairs and tables, nothing too fancy, but comfortable as well. Those booths though are ⁵⁄₅ stars. My only complaint about Katsu is that the furniture on their small front outdoor patio could be more eloquent. Plastic chairs and tables seem to detract from what is otherwise a tasteful, comfortable, and overall good sushi experience.
This place is about a 5 – 10 min walk west of Pape on the North side of Danforth. There’s street parking all around the Danforth, and a local green P. Parking is tough in this neighbourhood as its so busy so walking it, or riding the rocket (local transit aka TTC — bus/​subway) might be a better suited choice of travel.
Eating here, will leave you full and happy.

I have enough experience with this place to write a fair review. When I moved to Toronto I lived on the east end so I would go here approx. once per month (when I did my banking) because I liked getting work done over their WiFi while eating at a nice pace at a reasonable price. Today I returned after about a full year since I moved to the west end and will definitely be my last time. Here’s how they’ve gone majorly down hill:
–First of all, the place was empty… Nothing to complain about but their service should have been fine and the fact that it’s empty now (appose to a year ago), says it all.
–So they removed some items from the lunch menu, fair enough, they need to make money.
–On top of that, as I was ordering she mentioned ‘last call for lunch’ it was only half past 2pm — so I had to order everything at once, which was a reasonable few rolls, soul, etc.
–When I asked for their WiFi password they said their WiFi was down– then after I looked visably annoyed that I sat down and ordered just to not get any work done she gave me the password — so, she just lied to me.
–They gave off a vibe that they just didn’t want to be there. Fair enough, I’ve worked some shitty service jobs but it shows that they aren’t paid well at all.
–The real kicker was when not all of my food showed up and I asked about it, she said I didn’t order it etc.
I didn’t make a huge deal about it, but it was before 3PM and she said I couldn’t order again. So I ended up paying 20 $ (I did give a few $ tip regardless) and I had 2 small roles.
I guess that’s average price for sushi, but they definitely shouldn’t advertise all you can eat. It’s the fact that I was lied to multiple times I did feel ‘cheated’ and left feeling over all that the place must be struggling. Good luck giving it a try, they really need to do something about their customer service and they can get back to where they once were. Cheers.

Right off the bat, their AYCE menu is lacking in variety. This is the first sushi restaurant I have been to that doesn’t offer shrimp tempura or seaweed salad on their lunch AYCE menu. They also use way too much rice for their sushi rolls which creates an unpleasant, sticky and wet texture. Expect to be full after only 3 pieces. The only thing I would recommend is the chicken udon noodles. It’s a nice restaurant right on the danforth but as for the quality, I probably won’t be coming back.

I had AYCE sushi with a bunch of friends on a Sunday night. The place wasn’t very busy at all so I expected a half decent service. What I got was the worst service that I have ever had in Toronto. Seated at 6:50, drinks were taken at 7:15, food order at 7:20. We never got the food till about 8:00, and it was incomplete, we were missing a few dishes. No big deal it’s AYCE we can order it again; so we did. The next food order took another half hour to get to our table again incomplete. They ignored our table for a while, asked for water refills etc. They never came. The food was average, I didn’t really expect much. I would never recommend this place to anyone at all. I’m not really one to write restaurant reviews. This time I had to sign up just to write this.

my 15 year old son and i went for an ayce lunch. we have been regulars for about 2 months for suppers mostly but school is out so we went for lunch.
all was good. until we got the bill — our $ 14.99 per person ayce lunch became a $ 24.99 ayce lunch because unknowingly we ordered from the only menu provided — the dinner menu!
what should have been a $ 35 meal became a $ 56 dollar meal — for lunch.
every other table had a lunch menu but us — how am i supposed to know which is lunch and which is dinner when we never even received the lunch menu at all. the restaurant could not have cared less. your mistake — you pay.
well the $ 25 we were overcharged will come back on them. the birthday party that was supposed to be catered by katsu 2 weekends from now — no way.
i figured in the few months we were going to katsu for a couple of times a week was in excess of a couple of hundred dollars — no more.
bunch of jerks who have zero idea of customer service. a simple apology, some recognition of their liability in this would have kept us happy.
i guess now we will try the other 8 sushie places within 10 minutes of us.

Arrived on Saturday evening and restaurant was pretty empty. Nice looking décor. Service was fair as they kept refilling our cups. Food was lacking as the Maki rolls were made with white sticking rice, so when I took the first bite it get stuck on upper mouth and immediately had to wash it down with water. White tuna was not fresh and tasted very fishy and rubbery. I ordered the crispy sesame balls but it never came after requesting it again the second time.
Overall service was fair so I still tipped for the service but food quality is still lacking. Will I return? not likely

6:50: We were seated and given menus.
7:10: after waiting 20 minutes they took our drink and appetizer order. It is not busy.
7:15: the table next to us went inside to find their server. I overhear that they were chatting in the back not working. The customer was not happy. Not a good sign for our heroes…
7:22: Our drinks have arrived. Could this be some momentum???
7:28: our first item arrive. 4 carrot tempura. I’d thought we’d at least get the soup.
7:32: our apps arrive with our entrees. Whatever… I’ve sort of given up at this point.
7:47: Our server comes to check if we want more food.
My response?
«We haven’t gotten the rest of our food yet…»
7:50: The rest of our food arrives. I then decide to order more.
8:01: All the second round orders come! Wow! This cancels out all the poor service beforehand (just kidding it doesn’t). Maybe because we got a new server things became a little more efficient.
Note: We tipped 10%, which is crazy for me cause as a former server, I never tip lower than 15%. But considering the price of all you can eat ($ 23.99) and the really poor service, I really felt like we didn’t get our money’s worth.
Food was good but I felt like I was picking it apart out of frustration. Otherwise this would have been a 1 star rating.

I love their sushi! That’s the only place where They specially make a little cooked salmon for me because I can’t eat totally raw. My bad but their service and sushi are best. It makes me happy everytime!

Came here for an AYCE dinner and the food was pretty good. Service was also attentive and orders came out promptly. The only thing I will say is that it took a while to look for parking around the area, so if you’re planning on driving down here just be prepared for that.
At first I was a bit confused with the menu but once you open the tri-​folded brochure, you actually order from the left to the right since it’s specifically for dinner. I would recommend the deep fried cheese wontons and the garlic beef for sure since they were done perfectly. The cheese wontons have some onions inside as well so it has a good flavour inside.
I also ordered the bbq eel handroll which was good, however I wish they had included another piece of eel just so I wouldn’t have a whole bottom roll of rice. Otherwise, everything was alright when I came here so I wouldn’t mind coming in here again. Bathrooms are located on the lower level and the day I came, there were some families and kids sitting in the booths so it seems like a casual place to bring a group of people. Nice and friendly area to walk around after dinner.
The shrimp tempura are not deveined for those who wonder.

Took my mom for her birthday here they treat us like s*** and circus the same thing. The manager was rude and also very poor at English. I ordered a roll that tasted awful that I couldn’t eat and they force me to pay for it and I kept emphasizing how awful it was and they kept telling me I was wrong. I would recommend not going to this restaurant in fact I recommend calling the health inspector because their food is dried out and old I would say it was left over from the day before and don’t go here you get what you pay for $ 11.99 all you can eat.

Nice. relaxing atmosphere. There are some booths in the back. The baked mushrooms came in tin foil which was a little odd but they were tasty. I highly recommend their ginger ice cream though… it’s soooo creamy and has pieces of ginger!

Pros: Good, reliable food and you can sit for what seems like hours just chatting after dinner. I’m a semi-​regular. The AYCE dinner was quite good if you want variety.
Cons: Sometimes slow service and staff for whom English is a distant, distant second language. And the occasional wrong dish arrives.

A good looking and clean restaurant but servers that need more training and poor food quality.
Came here for AYCE dinner with a family of 4.
I say servers need more training because there was no front of house. We stood around clueless for the first 5 minutes. After being seated we had to wait another 5 minutes for menus and were not given tea/​water until we asked. Our edamame also arrived after our sushi… Otherwise servers were very friendly and seemed genuinely happy to be working.
Food quality:
Spicy salmon roll was not spicy at all. Fresh salmon sashimi, but seemingly old white tuna. Avoid all fried rice, udon and ramen because they’re all way too salty.
Lastly, you’d think that at an AYCE sushi place they would give you AYCE ice cream… But you’re limited to one scoop per person.
Overall, if you’re looking for quality sushi, don’t go to the danforth.

I have heard only good things about Katsu. So finally during busy Easter Break it was my time to step my foot in there. It was quite busy around weekend dinner time, but quite empty afternoon, on our third visit. Menu was interesting and long. It took a moment to find what to order. We ordered one try of various goodies with maki and the other with sushi.
We were offered nice Miso soups and small salads before the trays arrived. The sushi tray came with nice piece of grilled salmon, stir-​fry and a pile of rice. Tempura of veggies and shrimps were so good, that I feel drooling now, while thinking of that visit to Katsu… Food was nicely cooked, flavourful and definitely too much for us, so we both ended up taking little baggies home.
Server was fast, attentive and flexible, so our food arrived fast, water glasses were never empty. All in all a success. When you are on Danforth, make a stop and enjoy authentic Japanese cuisine.
Btw, if your tray comes with dumpling and you are a vegetarian, please ask them to subtitute with spring roll. On our third visit we overlooked that fact and ended up getting pork dumplings…

So I read all of these reviews on Katsu before I went here with 4 friends and contrary to what other Unilocalers say, I found this place pretty good but I do have some complaints, very few.
Pros:
— Affordable price for AYCE Lunch, cheaper than most places
— Staff was tentative and helpful
— Food came out within 5 minutes
— Sushi was fresh, good filling to rice ratio (there was more filling than rice so IDK what other people were complaining about TOO much rice)
— Good selection of food (A la carte menu) and drinks
— Takeout price for remaining food was good. $ 8 takeout for 15 pieces of uneaten sushi and deep fried items is fairly good
Cons:
— Drinks did take too long to come out, the place was like 25% full
— Limited selection of menu items (AYCE menu)
— A menu item was sent to our table when we clearly didn’t order it
— Did get very loud near the middle of our meal when the Greektown parade goers came flooding, made it difficult to request/​ask stuff to the waiters.
Overall experience was really good, would recommend this place to others if we wanted cheap affordable AYCE sushi. Downtown is good too but some places are expensive.